“It’s counterintuitive if you don’t consider that first out of bound shapes were not in play for consideration. It’s not obvious if you’re not already aware of that possibility.”
No disrespect but that statement is as confusing as the dialog that no layer is set as output.
You made the comment, “Also note that rotary function is not typically usually used with Absolute Coords.”
which implies that somehow it was related to the issue and dialog.
And in the other post about the same issue, the image was not outside the bounds of the workspace and you can clearly see in those images it was not.